06.08.2021 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Hybrid Virtual Meeting

Good morning everyone. I would like to call to order the hybrid virtual Pasco County Board of County Commission meeting of June 8th, 2021. At this time, please silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones. Please rise for the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. Oh merciful creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts. Amen. Amen. I pledge alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Okay. Madame clerk, please call the role. District two, Commissioner Moore here. District three, Commissioner Starky here. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick here. District 5, Commissioner Mariano here. District 1, Chairman Oakley here. my screen. Uh with uh Commissioner Pit Patrick being uh at online today, we will have all the voting will be done by roll call vote. Uh now's the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this session. uh the board to take also takes public comment on items to come forward in a future board agenda and to businesses under their preview. Due to CO 19 operations to safeguard the well-being and safety of our citizens and staff, today's public comment will be handled as follows. First, we will take public comment from those persons who are here in person. This includes a public comment kiosk if it is necessary due to the u overflow or someone shows up and prefers to speak the kiosk and hasn't closed and it hasn't closed yet. Next, we will take public comment from these who those who are pre-registered for WebEx link and are currently on quue. Finally, we will read into the record public comments and documents, powerpoints, or videos that have been identified by members of the public to be read out out loud, played at the meeting, or received and filed. This new format does not wave the request that when you address the board comments not um directed toward any personally toward any commissioner or team member but rather the directed to the issues. This provides virtual respect between the board members and the public. The WebEx and and persons kiosk participants. After stating your name and address for the clerk, they the timer will be activated and start at a countdown. After 2 minutes, one beep will sound and uh letting you know that you have one

minute remaining. After the time is up, two beeps will sound indicating three minutes are up and that you should finish your comments. WebEx participants will be disconnected when their time is up and kios participants will be asked to step away from the kiosk. Okay. Do we have um anyone to speak in person today? Madam clerk, um the list I have is uh for no one to speak in person. It's just individuals here to speak on um regular agenda items. Okay. So, we'll move on to WebEx. I have um four people pre uh pre-registered, but I have one that has connected. Mr. John Wilder. Mr. Wilder, if you could state your name and address for the record, please. Mr. Wilder. Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Thank you. Yes. My name is John Wilder. I reside at 9828 San Mateo Way in the Westport subdivision of district 5. I'm also the president of the Westport boat club and I'm here on the back of our current workers. You may proceed. We are a voting community that live and enjoy all the amenities that the area provides. However, we're challenged with the access to our waterways via the double hammock creek channel that comes into our subdivision. We would like to request that the commission include Westport in any upcoming dredging proposals that include Salt Harbors, Hudson, or any coastal community in the county. I've lived here for more than 20 years and our channels have never been dredged in that time frame. At this point, they are so bad that at low tide, we have one to one and a half ft of water throughout the channel. And in the winter months, less than 6 in in some locations. Many of our residents have gotten stuck in their boats waiting for the tides to rise just to be able to get back to their homes. This is a serious issue with life safety implications for many of our older and senior citizen right residents. This past weekend, we invited Commissioner Jack Mariano to our monthly meetings. He graciously attended. We took him out in our panels to personally see the conditions of our waterway and the issues we have at low tide. Mr. Markiano took photos of the of the shallow water, crop stars, and deteriorating navigational markers that make up our channel. These are the photos you're looking at today. As new developments come into the county, we should not forget about the older communities that have made this county so great for many years. I have all the confidence that this commission will count resources to make this stretching request possible and include Westport subdivision in any plan moving forward. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Um while um Mr. Wilder was speaking. We had another individual that had pre-registered log in. Shauna Loan. Okay.

M. Loan, if you would like to state your name and address for the record and then you may begin your comments. Hi, I'm Sha Loan, 1 19012 Tyler Jane Court, Lando Lake, District 4. Thank you, ma'am. You may proceed. Okay. I am a registered voter and homeowner of Pasco County and a former planning commissioner of one of the fastest growing communities in the United States. I'm here to speak on the removal of our county ordinance dealing with short-term rentals in Pasco County. The central concern is current resident impacts to quality of enjoyment and expectation of standards under the ordinance structure that has been dependent upon since the 1980s for the county. When an individual decides to convert their home into a hotel, they are consciously choosing specific risks and bringing unverified individuals into their home. Unfortunately, their adjacent neighbors take on similar risks and interact with these individuals without their consent. This effectively alters the zoning of their existing neighborhood as commercial zoning from a hotel is much different than zoning for a neighborhood. Where is the compensation for the impact to the neighbors that bought a home in an area that was guaranteed to be free of hotels through ordinance and zoning? Relinquishing relinquishing local control and stability in favor of distant control by state legislators and bureaucrats. It's not a good idea. Local control ensures that we have the stability of standards and predictability of life in Pasco County. We should be very we should just be very u slow to hand over control of our daily lives in any in any aspect. It is confusing for an elected body to put a morale on apartment homes with the sacred property value and then in the same period of time change stand ordinances to recur transient runners in our county. We also had um one of the commissioners speak about uh having a sense of community with all of these new developments being put in. How do Airbnbs contribute to that? They don't. Property owners have the right to peaceful enjoyment of their property through the contracts of their homes and the ordinances of this county and since essential local control such as the short-term rental ordinance are essential aspects of the quality of life here in Pascar County. A majority of these are the residents that live here year round. Unlike the investors that may only come out once in a while or snowbirds that only live here a portion of a year, the residents that occupy their homes full time are the ones voting in our local elections. Their voice is most Thank you for your time. Thank you. I have no one else um that pre-registered or logged in. Okay. Do you have um is there anyone at the kiosk? There is nobody at the kiosk at this time. All right. Thank you.

Go ahead. Um you got emails to read? Yes, sir. I do have emails. There are a total of 22 emails. Of those, uh 13 are duplicates. So, I could read the names and addresses the individuals who sent it and then just read that email once and then I'll read the others. Okay. All right. So, the um emails that I'll be reading that are duplicate, I'm going to read the names and address of the individuals. Bonnie Allen at 4651 Dwey Drive in Newport Richie, Florida. Myra Baker, 4362 Reeves Road, Newport Richie, Florida. Patricia Cunningham, 4282 Perry Place, Newport Richie, Florida. Doug Fryer and Jeanie Finch. 4055 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. Robert and Joanne Gotchock. 4101 Perry Place, Newport Richie, Florida. Madam Clerk. Yes, sir. Sir, Mr. People can't I'm getting messages. People can't hear on TV and can't hear you in the audience. Just so you know, I'll move my mic closer. My Pasco TV is working. It's I think something the regular TV thing. They're not hearing. They can only see. Just Just a heads up. Okay. That might be the TV station. So, Donnie Lee, can we hear? Yeah, you can hear. I'm going to I'll put it closer. All right. So, I'm going to um just repeat the names and addresses. Uh Bonnie Allen at 4651 Dwey Drive, Newport Richie, Florida. Myra Baker at 4362 Reeves Road, Newport Richie, Florida. Patricia Cunningham, 4282 Perry Place, Newport Richie, Florida. Doug uh Frey Freyer and Janie Finch, 4055 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. Robert and Joan Gotchock at 4101 Perry Place, Newport Richie, Florida. Jillian Graphy at 4570 Ingresol Place, Newport Richie, Florida. Jim and Sue Green, 4000 Marin Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. Um Ganna or maybe Gina uh Kyle at 3907 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. Deborah Leon, 5613 Golf Drive, Newport Richie, Florida. Teresa and Bill Lilly, 4359 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. Joan and Jeannie Palato 5532 Gidley Lane, Newport Richie, Florida. Jeff and Paula Spivey 5348 Lawrence Lane, Newport Richie, Florida. Sherry Wiler at 5420 Doll Green Drive, Newport Richie, Florida. All right, so those were the individuals that submitted the duplicate emails. I'll read the duplicate email at this time. We need to bring to your immediate attention a serious situation that could and already has resulted in an accident between a vehicle and a pedestrian which caused bodily harm to one of our GHWA residents and pets.

There are many ongoing factors in GHWA which creates a dangerous situation for vehicles and our residents. We do not have any sidewalks. We have very narrow and winding roads. The most and and most importantly, our current speed limit of 30 miles per hour is unsafe as drivers often cannot see and slow down in time to avoid hitting our many walkers, joggers, and bikers. For the safety of our residents, ranging from children to seniors, and to avoid future serious accidents, we therefore request that you immediately provide a safer situation for our community. One, reduce the speed limit in GHWA. to post several danger winding roads and flashing signs so that drivers can lower their speed accordingly. We request that you take the above action because we are primarily concerned with creating a safer environment for our residents. We are also asking you to take these safety measures because we are equally concerned of the liability that might be levied against us and Paso County if we are not proactive and if we do not take the action or the above action to protect our residents when we know for a fact that our current higher speed limit is unsafe for our seniors, children, and pets. Please note there is already a statute on the books, Florida statute 316.183 that authorizes the reduction of speed limits in residential neighborhoods. quote, "As may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person vehicle," end quote. This statute clearly gives you the authority to lower your speed, lower our speed limit, and we are we are asking you to enforce it for the safety and welfare of our residents. Commissioners, we want to thank you in advance for taking immediate action to protect our residents and to prevent another accident in GHWA. GHWA stands for Golf Harbors Woodlands Association. Okay, here are the individual emails. Uh the first email is from Candy and Andy Buck. They reside at 4435 Golfside Drive in Newport Richie, Florida. Dear Pasco commissioners, I reside at 4435 Golfside Drive, Newport Richie, Florida, 34652. And I request that the count the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners BOCC not add as an amendment and approval by the B Bo BOCC to include all the canals and waterways in the sea forest are which includes golf landings association and to not be included in the phase 2 permitting that is scheduled for the May 18th 2021 BOCC meeting. I request my email to be read and entered into the record of the May 18th, 2021 board of county commissioners meeting. Sincerely, next email is from Barry Lasher, 5557 CE Force Drive, Unit 112, Newport Richie, Florida. Dear commissioners, I request that this email be read into the record at the next meeting on this subject. I wish to thank the representatives that have already acknowledged my prior emails on this subject. As you each well know, boating and waterway access is an

essential part of our golf lifestyle. The canals in our area are becoming more shallow and troublesome to navigate with each passing year. Without dredging, the time will soon come that voters will be unable to will be unable to access the Gulf in vessels which they currently own. Your current commitment of funds to dredging in this area will result in the dredge and associated resources already being in this area and will offer the most costeffected opportunity to provide a more comprehensive dredging solution to include the golf landing se force canals and adjacent canal system. It is very important opportunity to address this problem. Let's not miss it. Thank you again for listening and being responsive to your citizens and electric electorate. Best regards. Next email is from Deborah Cox. Address 4336 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. I own a home in the community of Golf Harbors Woodlands in Marine Parkway in Newport Richie. We have lived there for the past six years and can tell you the traffic speeding is by by the traffic speeding by is a problem. The road is busy and has many curbs. We have service vehicles and neighbors using the full stretch of Marine Parkway. The way the road was built makes visibility limited and curves dangerous. The vegetation in the community is mature and can also block sight lines, which is different from when the county was built and the 30 mph was decided upon. There are no walkways. People that are walking or riding bikes are at a great risk of getting hit. We have a severe problem backing out of our driveway. Twice we've had a car come through our yard that was going too fast to avoid hitting us. Cars have gone off the road and through several yards in Marine Parkway from going too fast. I prefer not to walk or even stand near Marine Parkway for fear of getting run over. My grandchildren are not allowed in our front yard for fear of speeding cars losing control. Many of my neighbors feel the same. Even though there are signs suggesting a slower speed, drivers routinely travel more than the posted 30 mph. We can't change the structure of the road with its many curves and lack of sidewalks, but we can make our community safer by lowering the speed limit and enforcing it. Deborah Cox. Next email is from Michael Gilgali. Address is 4311 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida 34652 Golf Harbors Woodlands. I have now lived in the woodlands for almost two years and have experienced multiple close calls with speeding drivers almost hitting me. Members of my family are pets while on a on walks in our neighborhood, slower vehicles, and not long ago, I witnessed a close call with a child waiting for a school bus. The speeding here needs to be addressed immediately. I don't believe that just lowering the speed limit is all that is going to take place is all that is going to take. Many times right in front of my home in Paso County, deputy sits in their vehicle to deter speeders, but as soon as they leave,

people continue to speed. Either better enforcement or other means such as speed humps need to be implemented in our community. This is a major safety issue and as more families with children move into our community, I fear that this issue, if left undressed, will lead to someone getting seriously hurt or possibly killed. Thank you for your time. The next email is from Neil PA. Address is 9366 Marine Parkway, Newport Richie, Florida. I request that you vote in favor of reducing the speed limit within Golf Harbor's woodlands. The goal of a lower speed limit would be to improve the safety of the residents and the guests of the community while potentially providing some favorable environmental impacts. The safety of the residents and guests of this community is of paramount importance and a lower speed limit would reduce the risk of accidents and also reduce the severity of accidents that could still occur. In addition to the potential of reducing the risk of harm to persons or property, other intangibles from a lower speed limit could arise such as better fuel economy which could translate to lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduced air pollution. There would seem to be no justifiable reason to vote against reducing the speed limit and we hope that you will consider our request as it relates to this matter. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. Sincerely, next email is from Lewis Stein, 4321 Dwey Drive, Newport Richie, Florida. We need to lower the speed limit in Golf Harper's Woodlands. We have no sidewalks and people need to slow down. The next email is from Bruce Wileer. Address is 5420 Doll Green uh Drive, Newport Richie, Florida. Dear Dear Commissioners, my name is Bruce Wiler. I have been a homeowner and resident of the Golf Harbors Woodlands neighborhood since August 2007. During this time, I have been concerned with the speed of traffic in the neighborhood, especially on Marine Parkway between Opal Lane and Dwey Drive. I am concerned about the safety of my family and neighbors who regularly walk around the neighborhood. The factors that create the concern are listed below. One, traffic tends to move at or above the posted speed limit, 30 mph. Two, the section of Marine Parkway that I mentioned above winds around and is heavily wooded. trees and shrubs encroach on the roadway, so driver visibility is limited and may prevent them from seeing pedestrians early enough to avoid an incident. Three, the neighborhood only has a couple of sections of walk sidewalks, so pedestrians are forced to use the roadway. As potential solutions, I would like the commissioners to consider lowering the speed limit within the golf hoppers woodland neighborhood to 25 miles per hour or installing traffic quieting uh devices along Marine Parkway. Thank you for Thank you very much for your consideration. kind disregards. And

the next email is from John uh Zavadne. Address is 5427 Lawrence Lane, Newport Richie, Florida. Here we go. We have been residents of Golf Harbors Woodland since May of 2004. We love this community. We love the people and we want to be safe. The roadways have become dangerous, very dangerous. Walking and bicycling riding, walking and bicycle riding riding have become very popular. Everyone is trying to stay fit and live longer. When Hummers, Teslas, and sports cars roar through the neighborhood way beyond 30 mph and something needs to be done. It is especially dangerous on Marine Parkway where the curvy roads traverse older trees and visibility is at a minimum. Nobody wants speed humps, speed bumps. However, that may be the only solution if we can't reduce the speed limit to 20 or 25 miles per hour. And with the increased value, we have seen younger families moving in with many younger children. Who is going to take responsibility when one of those beautiful children is crushed by a gigantic pickup truck? Please help us. Action is needed. John and Audrey Zabadne 5427 Lawrence Lane, Newport Richie, Florida, Golf Harbors. The last email that I have is from Karen Hemingway. Address is 6009 C Ranch Drive, number 414, Hudson, Florida. I am a vacation rental owner at Golf Islands Beach and Tennis Club. My please present my comments regarding the short-term rentals Tuesday at the B VOCC. I have one condominium. It is managed by an excellent property manager and there have never been any complaints or nor no problems from the time I've owned it since January 20th, 2016. I occasionally stay at my home, my own unit and a very short term. Wait, I occasionally stay at my own unit and a very short term. I would like to see that this issue is settled because we've been able to do this in the past and coming back and asking owners to continuously sign petition. I currently reside in another state, but I brought but I bought a personal home in a senior mobile home park in Hudson, Florida, Pasco County, and plan on being there shortly to reside in Florida. I just wanted to let you know that I do believe in short-term rentals and I have used Airbnb and other c uh in other countries and find them to be very honorable business people and also VBO brings many fine clients to my property. Thank you very much. sincerely and that concludes the emails. Do we have any more? That's it. That's it. That is all the emails that I have. Okay, chairman. Mr. Chairman. All right, Mr. Moore. Thank you, sir. May I ask something real quick? Um, we a few meetings ago, we said we wanted to try to obviously get back to normal, start inviting people back in the boardroom again. I think we're at the point now where we need to stop reading

emails into the record and keep it to either WebEx or live. We wanted to get because everybody's in agreement. I'll make the motion because I'll have to make a motion to remove that and we'll also need to remove it from the notice for next meeting. But if I think I have consensus, I'll make that motion now. Okay. Just to be clear, Mr. Chair, that does require an amendment to our resolution. So, we'd have to bring back the first at the next meeting. We can't do it today, but at the next meeting, we can do that. Right. Okay. So, if I'm not correct, what would happen, m Mr. Goldstein, is um if that motion passes today or remove it from the notice for the next meeting, there's a possibility emails in the morning still be will be read to the record next meeting, but the afternoon during public hearings, they would not be able to be read as long as that passes. That's correct. You still have to allow public comment on the consent agenda in the morning if somebody really wanted to do that. But, you can direct that the notice for the next meeting not include that option. Okay. Okay, Mr. Chairman. Um, and I think if we're going to make an adjustment, let's do a good adjustment as well. I think we need to look at the structure as far as what the spacing is of the seating now. Um, the way the way CO is now um minimized, I think it's those who feel comfortable let them come in. But I think we need to make sure we have enough room in here too. So, as we can take a look at that when we bring it forward, let's kind of look at being a little bit more flexible with the space. And and I because one of the reasons why like for instance the gentleman from Westport that spoken public comment y where I went over the pictures we had a whole bunch of people that would have come in they would have emailed or whatever I says no don't do that I need one spokesman y talked about the whole thing going through and if you want to come to the meeting bring everybody with you and you can lead the spokesman rather than tying us up for a lot of time. Uh I will say I didn't know we're going to get all those Gulf Harbors woodlands emails coming in. Um staff is looking at that. We're we're identifying that. But I think you're right. We need to go back to more normaly. Yeah. I think WebEx is still good given people especially people that are unable to come in disabilities. I agree 100%. All right. So that's my motion if I can get a second. Second. I get a second. Um did you have something there? Well, we got a motion to second. I just think Go ahead. I was saying I think it's nice to be able to offer the email as some people

may be afraid to speak in front of crowd but they can still voice their share of well I want to be clear I think commissioner's mot the commissioner's motion doesn't preclude people from sending in emails they can still send won't be read into the record that's back to normal and the other thing I want to clarify is that the capacity of the room is not set by the resolution. That's actually set by facilities. So, they could change that at any point that they want to. I think we're only allowed 18 people. Mr. Biles. Yes, sir. We we'll we're going to reevaluate it every every time. What capacity the other? All right. I have a motion in a second. Uh all those in favor by roll call vote. District two, Commissioner Moore. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Hi. District 5, Commissioner Mariano. I, District 1, Chairman Oakley, I. Motion pass unanimously. Mr. Chair. Okay. Um, while I was reading emails, we had another individual who had pre-registered um come online with WebEx. Okay. I haven't actually closed closed public hearing yet. So, let's hear that person. Okay. Um, Darlene Donkey, if I pronounced your name correctly, I I hope I did. Um, if you would please state your name and address for the record and you may begin your comments. 915C Ranch Drive, Unit 109, Florida 34667. Thank you, ma'am. You may begin. All right. ing that anyone who is a majority owner in sunset phase 4 a potential vacation property at G Island next door to my residential property where I live for 27 years would propose to check education rental ordinance at Gile properties in patent sorry recruiting oneself on this diceptical not enough there should be no vote no proposal no motion not only is going to change a a change if vacation rental authoriz issue of warnings that will benefit property in the future. Whether or not this property in the future, whether or not it is up for sale, his legislative assistant in supportive conducting a planist campaign to solicit for emails could have the change and I am not in favor of this vacation rentals that informative meeting. A quote from a real estate says this is a followup email from the one sent a couple of weeks ago. Mariana's again asking for everyone who supports vacation rentals in Pasco County to send emails in support. This meeting has an agenda either to discuss changing or eliminating Pasco Countyy's ordinance relative to vacation rentals unsol deserve to be informed of discussion of possible changes for vacation rentals vacation rentals and a letter to owners where I live. Sonia's email from our

office um instructions below. Jack is pushing to get this ordinance changed so no longer have to collect 51% of neighbor signatures to get approval but he needs our support. Please share this information. RIP homeowners with vacation rentals, real estate agents, property management companies neighbors whose support has changed. Never the total population of the people that are not interested in this. This letter and other advice were not sent to all owners at all and just those in favor of eliminating the organs behind our backs. Why? So when they do for the public I do not want my presidential property turned into motel. We owners who do not island as a gold mine for investors need the protection of administrators. absolute adventurous such a lack of transparency were broad involved in this attempt to secretly sidestep owners silence our voices blindside us all the same ordinances please do not vote to change rental registration ordinance by lowering 50 51% of owners change required do not change the nonation rental status for violence please protect homeowners and tax committees who do not want their neighborhoods turned into the motel. Please recognize of interest from his Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. If I could, you know, we talked about how we want public comments to be. So, let me just make a couple of comments to that real quick. Um, this was brought in by a lady who was doing vacation rentals and she found out an Airbnb with Connie was shutting her down. There was 169 other Airbnbs done in just the Hudson area. That's how this came about. Uh at Gulf Highlands, Gulf Islands, there's two other condominium associations, building one, building two, and three. They have the power to get 51% vote and just do it. My phase 4 coming forward, we can do the same thing independent from anything. I don't need anything to change in the ordinance. And we'll address that later on my end. But just so you know, there's I didn't bring this forward. The people brought it forward for different reasons. And just want to make that clear. Understand? Okay. So we have anyone else on WebEx? No one else. No one else. Then uh public comment time period is closed. Kios is closed until uh 1:30 this afternoon during public hearings. Uh at this time uh the next order of business is consent agenda. I have a pool sheet with one item on it. Um C43 to pull and revise. Any commissioners want to add anything to the list? No. Move approval of the remaining consent agenda. Second. Got a motion and second to move approval on all the rest of the consent items. All those in favor by roll call vote. District two, Commissioner Moore. I. District three, Commissioner Starky.

I. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. I, District 5, Commissioner Mariano. I, District 1, Chairman Oakley, I. Motion passed unanimously. Okay. C43. Good morning. Mike Carbala, assistant county administrator of public infrastructure. There was a numerical error on page two of the change order that has been corrected and distributed. Move for approval. Got a motion, a second. All those in favor by roll call vote. District two, Commissioner Moore. Hi. District three, Commissioner Starky. I District 4, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Hi, District 5 Commissioner Mariano. I District 1 Chairman Oakley. I motion pass unanimous. Okay, done with consent. We will move on to our regular items. Okay, now we go to the regular agenda. Uh, each regular item as called in order. Let's see where I'm at here. R72. Mr. Chair, that is um my item. And if you if the commissioners remember about six months agoish, uh this um board had requested that my office present in on a semiannual basis the schedule of investments of the county. So I think this is really great timing um to be able to do that today. So we will continue to do that um going forward around every six months to present the um schedule of investments to you and we do submit it quarterly to you um just the schedule itself. Um so you'll have that if we don't have a presentation. So up at the podium we have Mr. Scott Stitcher. He is the director of relationship manager management I'm sorry with PFM and attending virtually with PFM if there's any questions um are Sean Ganon senior managing consultant with relation relationship manager Scott Sweden the senior managing consultant as a client manager and Steve Alexander who is the managing director. Also up at the podium is um my office's finance director, our director of financial services, Manny Long. And um in the audience, if need be, we have Matt Lazar, who is the assistant finance director and also our chief administrative officer, um Heather Grimes. So I would like to for Mr. Stitcher as well as Mr. Long to be able to present the investment to you. Thank you. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Uh Mr. Chairman and commissioners, very good to be with you uh this morning in person. We appreciate the opportunity. As uh the clerk mentioned, my name is Scott Stitcher with PFM Asset Management. We've been entrusted to manage a highquality fixed income investment portfolio on behalf of the county. Uh we do so within the parameters set forth by

Florida State Statute 218.415 415 as well as the county's ordinance and investment policy. And as uh you probably know, the main objective of that state statute in your policy is the safety of principle followed by liquidity and then yield. I want to make some brief economic backdrop comments. They kind of support the performance numbers that we'll look at uh here in a second. Um as we when we last spoke we talked about the fact that the pandemic continues to shape global the global markets and economy. Um that really hasn't changed. We felt that business as usual would uh is not likely to return to normal until a vaccine is widely distributed. Uh the good news is we've seen marked improvement in the economy and we've seen marked improvement in the roll out of the vaccine with now roughly 42% of Americans fully vaccinated about 140 million people. The Fed has in that time period has reaffirmed its commitment to utilize the full scope of its monetary authority uh until a full economic recovery is achieved. Uh they were doing so by keeping short-term rates very short in a range of 0 to 0.2 25%. Uh why is that important? Well, as a fixed income investor, that truly acts as a headwind to you all. So, that is an impediment in uh higher returns in the near term. Uh they also continue to plan to purchase $120 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage back securities to maintain uh that liquidity and keep interest rates in check. Uh the Fed has come out and been very transparent. They've said they anticipate the roll out of the vaccination, the trillions of dollars in fiscal stimulus, their uh their their efforts in monetary policy to uh impact the economy. We and and they anticipate the fastest expansion uh of the US economy in 30 years. They've increased their projections in growth from four and a 4.2% to 6 and a.5% as a result of that. Uh with all that said, with that backdrop, what we saw in the first quarter of 2021 was interest rates on the longer end of the yield curve increased dramatically uh with this optimism of improved economic growth as well as the anticipation of inflation that would come along with that. So, uh what what that means is longer duration or longer uh maturity benchmarks actually saw slightly negative returns uh during the quarter. And again, we're going to take a closer look at this uh in in a little bit. Before we get to that though, I thought I'd turn it over to you, Manny, to talk a little bit. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, commissioners. Appreciate this. uh even with the low interest rates that we're seeing, we continue to meet the benchmarks uh that are set forth for the short-term and long-term bond funds. Again, first and foremost, as Scott mentioned, uh we are maintaining the safety and security of the principal of Pasco County funds. Um as of the end of the second quarter, March 31st, 2021, uh the total unrestricted portfolio, as you'll see on the screen there, is $1.17 billion. Uh the short-term investment distributed

out from the Florida Trust Day-to-day fund is $566 million. Um the SBA um of $110 million with $10.5 million um in the local government investment pool, the Florida class. Total investments that we actually manage is $1.5 billion at three at March 31st, 2021. Um again, $320 million that is restricted investments that we do. Longer term investments um are with uh PFM, $215 million, uh Florida Trust uh short-term bond fund, $257 uh million, and $10.6 million in CDs with qualified public depositors. Again, this is our March 31st, 2021. Um we do um see that on the next slide if you can go to the next slide there. When we are looking at our in uh the Pasco County's investment policy you will see that the gold bars are the limits for our investment policy. The blue bars are where we are within that restricted investment policy. So when you look at our local government investment pools, we were at 71.39% um almost at our limit of 75% for local government investment pools. Uh we do have another slide a little later on that we can kind of show you that we moved money out of our local and local government investment pool um to longer term duration uh so that we could actually take uh advantage of like Scott mentioned on the longer uh term um yield curve there. So and I'll turn it back over to Scott here. Thanks man. So I'm going to um fast forward to slide uh six within the presentation and focus on the pool of money that PFM is responsible for. So what Manny just shared with you is countywide looking at all the assets in aggregate and we are again a portion of that pie so to speak. So on page six, actually six through uh seven is a summary of u again the assets that we're responsible for. I'll pause for a second for that for the presentation to catch up, Mr. Chairman. There we go. Excuse me. I I never got a copy of this presentation. Doesn't show up on the computer either. So when you talk like 60 pages, we don't we're not seeing it, right? I don't know what to say. It was submitted I don't know like three weeks ago. No, because it's not shown on my computer. So, until this thing rolls along, I don't see it. So, I see page six now. Okay. No, when we submit them, I don't know how it gets to the commissioners. I I don't have a copy. I wasn't printed a copy. Well, even even on the the computer agenda, it didn't show it that you could there was was an attachment. I don't know if we submitted it like three weeks ago. I'd like to have a paper copy of my book either. Yeah. Would you like to have someone downstairs print it for you or at least email it to us so we have a copy of it? Right.

Is there is there a different process? PowerPoint presentations though if you have the PowerPoint presentations. I don't know. Just let me know what the if you want a different process to follow. Um we'll do that to make those comments. I think it's you. I think it's us. No, just I just for the future, let's have it. We'll get a copy. We'll look at it. We can bring any questions we have later, but make us a copy of the uh paperwork for R72. Uhhuh. All right. Thank you. She'll make us all a copy. So, okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. So, so on page six is a summary of the investment portfolio again that PFM is responsible for. I'll just point out some highlevel details around the portfolio and and note that we ended the first quarter of 2021 with a market value of $215,630,729. The average credit quality of the portfolio stands at double A and that's represented in that pie chart in the upper left where we give you the S&P ratings of the portfolio. I also note that I I mentioned earlier we manage a high quality fixed income portfolio. It's a very diversified fixed income portfolio and that's represented in the sector allocation breakdown in the pie chart in the upper right. Why is that important? Well, we're going to talk about that when we when we look at the performance. It's something that worked against you in the first quarter of 2020 but has uh benefited you uh very much since that time. Uh also point you to the yield at market on this portfolio. It stands at about a 61%. The yield at cost at 1.27%. Again, why is that important? Well, those numbers are quite significant when you look at your alternatives on the short end like money market funds, uh local government investment pools and bank accounts. So the the yield pickup on the longer duration portfolio is quite substantial in this environment has been beneficial to the county. Um I'll also point you to the maturity distribution on the bottom. You can see that the majority of the portfolio is invested in that 1 to two and two to threeyear part of the yield curve. And again why is that important? Well that means you've locked in your your income for a longer period of time. That means you have less securities maturing maturing which need to be invested uh in today's rate environment at lower yields. So you've locked in uh yield for a longer period of time and again that will benefit you uh in this low rate environment. I want to go to page seven and just look at performance here briefly. It's it seems like a busy page. I'm going to point you to a couple data points on it. What you're looking at is the four most recent quarter ends of performance as well as one and three-year annualized returns. And I'm going to point you to that first column that uh ending for the period ending March 31st, 2021. And you'll note the

portfolio was flat for the quarter at 0%. Net of fees slightly negative at a negative.02% but we did outperform the benchmark. I mentioned earlier that interest rates rose during the quarter which was not good for longer duration uh uh securities and the the uh benchmark was down a negative.05%. So about three basis points or 03% of outperformance for the quarter. I want to focus on something a a little uh longer in nature and look at that one-year number as one quarter truly does not create a trend. Uh and point point you to the total return for the portfolio for the trailing 12 months ending March 31st. The portfolio was up 1.98%. After fees 1.92% versus the benchmark at 26%. Why is this significant? What's not on here is the end of the first quarter in 2020 when you saw this flight to quality when it was evident that the pandemic was upon our shores and a diversified strategy worked against you. So, I commend the clerk and the staff at the county in remaining true to the investment discipline, remaining true to your investment policy and remaining in a diversified strategy. It clearly uh worked in your favor. If you look at that 630 2020 column when the portfolio and the uh fixed income markets came roaring back as the Fed stepped in and provided liquidity in the markets. So again that uh sticking to your de discipline definitely contributed to that one-year number. So again I commend uh the the county staff. Let me stop there. See if there are any questions. If not I'm going to hand it back over to Manny. Okay, thank you. Any questions so far? Do I have any questions? Not seeing any. Uh if we can go to the next page, uh page eight and this is the uh end of April 30th uh 2021. Just to kind of show um as you remember from the uh previous slide that we were at 71.39% in local government investment pools. Uh we did move a significant amount of money um to PFM. You can see their unrestricted longerterm investments at now $368 uh million when at the end of March uh we were at I think it was $215 million for that. So uh we moved quite a quite a bit of money on there to take advantage of uh PFM's uh expertise and uh some longerterm investments on there. So I think that's kind of all I have here. Scott, unless you had anything else and we can answer any questions that you all might have. Any questions from commissioners? No. If you don't have any, we'll get the paperwork. We'll get a copy and each commissioner will be receive one. We'll we'll give it to them. So, they want to refer back to. Okay. Thank you. All right. We go to um R73. Welcome. Hi. I'm just waiting for the PowerPoint. Make sure your mics um pull it to you. Thank you.

Good morning, commissioners. Erica will planning and development. Item R73 PD 2110379 is request to appoint 13 members to the Northeast Pasco County Royal Advisory Committee. On March 23rd, 2021, the Board of County Commissioners adopted resolution number 21-137 establishing the Northeast Pasco County Rural Advisory Committee to evaluate and assess all current policies and regulations related to the Northeast Pasco County Rural Overlay District. The resolution requires the BCC to appoint 13 voting members to the Pasco County Northeast World Advisory Committee. As established, it's comprised of 13 voting members of the following categories. Five property owners that are residents, five business owners in one land use attorney, and two at large members. On May 5th, 2021, a press release was distributed to the public requesting eligible candidates to apply to the NERK. By May 14th, 2021, Pasco County BCC collected 22 forms for membership appointments for the NERAK. Planning and Development Department review the candidates and recommends the following 13 candidates. For the property owners category, we have Nancy Hazelwood, Anthony Mithdun, Lisa Moretti, Mary Kay Harrison, and Diana Hughes Diaz. The next category, we have the Northeast World Business owners, Craig Latin Jr., James Hancock, Paul Vocher, Frank Gregoro, and Ronnie Aldis. And for the third category, we have the team members at large, Cindy Terrapini, Christopher Williams, and the land use attorney, G. Randall, Randy James. We request that the BCC vet the candidates as shown to establish the northeast Pasco County Rural Advisory Committee as provided in resolution number 21-137. Thank you. Any questions? I just have one, Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. No. your district. Yeah. I mean, have you uh staff actually had showed me this group out of the 22, they chose these 13. Okay. I've looked them over. Um I think they did a good job in placing them, and I think it's good, and it's balanced. Mhm. Uh with people that are in in that community, live in that community, and and have u maybe stakeholders, you might call. So I think u they did a good job in selecting the 13 out of the 22 and it's my committee and and I'll comfortable these people would be good. Okay. And and some of the purpose we're we're doing this is because we always get kickback when there's good projects that come in that area. And actually there hasn't been anything decided for a long time on um one thing particular was some commercial that's been employment centers for a long time like 41 and 75 and and some other areas that like

Luchi. We're redeveloping Luchi and we got a couple manufacturers in that area. So, we want to make sure we have a good place for workforce housing. And in the Northeast, the way it was, you couldn't do that. So, we're going to designate and and look at those items and then bring that back to the board for a vote. So, okay. In the future. So, I think it's going to be a good process and um people will be able to voice their opinion. I think we've got a great uh committee with the 13 we've got chosen. So, okay. So with that, entertain a motion. Motion for motion for approval. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor by roll call vote. District two, Commissioner Moore. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. Well, the the only one I would have liked to have seen on there that isn't on there is Seth. Yeah, that's what I thought. Seth Wademan. I I don't know what car category that was. Yeah, but they I thought staff did a good job in the Okay. Do you have alternates? No, we don't have any alternates. We have the ring remaining group there. We could, but we didn't put any alternates. We expect everybody to serve. If we find that out, I'll bring it back and ask for an alternate. Well, I if I could amend the motion to include an alternate me. I accept that. Okay, I'm comfortable. So, I got a motion and a second. All those in favor by roll call vote. District two, Commissioner Moore. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Hi. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I. District one, Chairman Oakley. I. Motion passed. Uh 5-0. Okay. Thank you. Move on to R74. Good morning. Good morning, Bob. How are you? Good morning. Bob Corg, Pasco County budget director. The item you have before you is a resolution authorizing staff to pursue the second trunch of the general obligation bond, which would fund the construction of the detention center expansion. And with your permission, I'll read the title into the record this time. A resolution of the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, supplementing resolution number 19-56 adopted by the board of county commissioners on December 11, 2018, which authorized the issuance of the Pasco County, Florida general obligation bonds, jail improvements, and projects in one or more series in the original aggregate

principal amount of not to exceed 132,150,000 authorizing not to exceed of 107,933,500. $163.20 of general obligation bonds series 2021B jail projects and improvements fixing certain details of sale of said bonds. Approving the forms of the summary notice of sale and of official notice of sale with respect to such bonds. delegating to the county administrator or budget director the authority to determine the principal amounts of such bonds to be issued and the bid date with respect to such bonds to award and to award the sale thereof to the lowest conforming bidder based on bids submitted at public sale and to determine the terms of such sale. Approving the form and authorizing the execution and delivery of a disclosure dissemination agent agreement. Appointing the bond registar and paying agent approving the form and authorizing the distribution of a preliminary official statement and authorizing the execution and delivery of an official statement pertaining to the bonds. Authorizing certain officials of the county to execute any document or to take any action required in connection with the issuance of said bonds. providing certain other matters in connection therewith, providing for the severability of parts hereof if declared invalid, and providing for an effective date. There are no questions. Be happy to field any questions. If there are no questions, we recommend approval. Approval. Second. Have a motion and second. All those in favor by I. Roll call vote. District two, Commissioner Moore. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Hi. District 5, Commissioner Mariano. I, District 1, Chairman Oaken, I motion pass 5 Z. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Just to ask a question. Was it related to this, but it's coming up. Are we going to hear a presentation about what's going to go on with the project as far as how we're working on different facets that we're going to be in it? I know I met with consultants a few months ago, but I mean, if the board would like, we can bring a presentation to the board on the design and and what we've worked out with the sheriff, how I plan on doing that. So I think the public would like to see it too. I'm hearing spending a lot of money. I'm hearing a yes. So okay, we'll schedule that. We're not. Okay. Probably the July or August meeting. Okay. Very good. Thanks, Bob.

Thank you. All right. Move on to R75. Yes, sir. Commission. This is um kind of an update of where we are with the budget process. You know, to date, you know, we gave you a projection of revenues back in February. I will say I think the market's changed to the good significantly since then. So, this is kind of updated to a certain extent in response to that. Uh kind of the general goal today is to give you a high level overview of where we are with respect to revenue and and some of the required expenses, excuse me, but also to kind of give you an idea of some of the business plan initiatives and the various funds that that we are recommending and then get your feedback as we go through uh to if there's anything we missed. Um Bob sent out last night a draft and it's draft is still reasonably fluid mainly because we're waiting on today but also some other input of the general fund and municipal services fund business plan initiatives um you know for your review and kind of to if you see something on there that you would like to elevate that now is the time for us to to have that discussion. Um but he's also going to cover the other major funds. So I just wanted to tee that up. This leads into developing the final budget and uh setting of the trim that you will do in July and then obviously the budgets that are produced and distributed to the board prior to the public hearings in September. So there's still a lot of work to do, but this is really for a dialogue and discussion about making sure we're on the right track with respect to various BPIs in the in the different funds, not necessarily just the general fund, but the general other major funds. So with that said, I'll turn it over to Bob and let him go into it. Thank you. Okay. So, as we wait for the presentation to be pulled up, thank you. Go to the next slide, please. As Dan mentioned, we are in the point of the process where we have received our uh preliminary or draft budgets from our department directors and those include any new spending, which we call business plan initiatives. And so, as Dan mentioned, we want to review those business plan initiatives with you here today, get your feedback on them, and to give you the opportunity, as Dan said, if there's anything we missed that you'd like to elevate, please bring that to our attention. Next, please. First, I'd like to talk about the preliminary taxable taxable assessed values that we received from the property appraiser on June 1st. As you know, we get the preliminary June 1st. We'll get the final on July 1st. And the preliminary that's mislabeled there, the preliminary taxable assess values is just over $35 billion. You'll notice the new construction figure was just over a billion dollars last year and the new construction this year is almost $1.4 billion. the re-evaluations, those are properties that had have had some sort of significant improvement made to them that nearly doubled from $1.1 billion to $2 billion between 21

and 22. Next, please. And so that $35 billion uh taxable assessed value is a 10.8% increase over last year, which is an astounding figure. And as you know, the that increase of 10.8% 28% generates about $24.7 million in additional uh advorum tax revenues. We have a informal agreement with the sheriff in which we split any new uh tax property tax revenues. And so of that 24 million, 12.4 would go to the sheriff, 12.4 would go to the county and other constitutionals. Of that 12.36 million, we would deduct 4.92 million off the top. And that's the amount of money that goes to the community redevelopment agencies as well as the taxable uh increment uh funding area tiff and those are used for transportation public transportation and public works. And so once we do that math available to the board and constitutionals for new spending is 7.44 million. If we go to the next slide please. Anyone who spent any time in Pasco County driving around would understand this new construction value of $1.38 billion. And every year since 2014 after the recession, that has been an an increase in every single year since 2014. Next, please. And so we saw the $7.44 million there that we had in additional abil revenues in which to spend. We do have uh some things in which we we call we categorized them as must spends. First is the the board gave us a directive to increase the general fund reserve. This is the emergency reserve to 16.7%. So we'll be able to do that this year. We'll bring online fire stations 3 and fire station 9 will come online this year. There has been an increase or a a change to the employee retirement both for employee for general employees and for uh public safety employees. That change is about $600,000 to the general fund. We have some contractual obligations with Starky Park and Gulf Harbors. Medical examiner, the number of the case load for the medical examiner is increasing year-over-year. And then finally, the contribution to state Medicaid. We pay about $7.4 million a year to state Medicaid. That increases about $300 to $400,000 per year. Next, please. So we're proposing some capital investments in the general fund to be funded from the general fund and of course the first two of these are facility investments to to the upkeep of our uh current facilities and then it hardware and software just ongoing kind of replacement renovation and upkeep of those things. The next two things are related to central facilities building central facilities currently works out of the fire station at Land of Lakes. In two years that fire station will be demolished. That's one of the bond project fire stations that's going to be rebuilt. So, we need to relocate the central facilities uh crew. And to do that, we need to build the road that will lead to the fire training center in the central part of the county. And so, the rest of these projects are small projects. And we finally conclude with

the dredging and permitting design project of about $640,000. Next, please. So, we ask all of our department directors to go out there, look at their levels of service, look at their performance measures, what kinds of things do they need in their budgets to provide the services that our customers, residents, and business owners would expect, and to come back to us with these business plan initiatives. You can see we've received over well, there's 111 business plan initiatives there. Certainly, we cannot afford to fund all of those and so we had to prioritize those in in our budgeting process. You'll notice the last item there, salary increase for firefighters and and BCC employees. That's a 4% increase for all employees and that's about $3 million. Next, please. And so once we took all the initiatives, all those 111 initiatives, we determined how much money we would have based on taking the 7.44 44 million subtracting the must pays etc etc and that is that's the list you have here so the list that we provided to you yesterday is the prioritized list and I won't go into each and every one of these however if there are any that you would like me to spend more time on any you have questions on please let me know I'll just touch on some of these uh the first one I would like to touch on is our planning technical team and the development process the planning zoning is an area that's kind of a bottleneck and so we're putting a technical uh team and the current planning. And then you'll notice on the next page, a zoning team to help us clear that bottleneck. We're adding some code enforcement officers. We're adding a records technician to help with the public records requests in 911. Currently, we have a growing number of public records requests from the court system. And the courts put a very hard deadline on when we have to produce those uh documents andor voice recordings. And so currently to keep up with that from time to time we have to pull people off the line that are call takers to help us fulfill those requests. And so this will put another person to just help us with the uh fulfilling those public records requests so we don't have to pull people off of the phones. And then finally our veteran service officer in the uh case loads is increasing in the central lane of Lakes office. there's one officer that works out of that office and if that officer is on training or vacation or something then then we'd have to do some clever switching to make sure that that office isn't vacant and so this would put another person in that particular location. Next please. Mr. Chairman, just a quick question on the U planning technical team. Yes, sir. Is that going to be funded through the permitting fees? Yes, thank you. That's a great point. Yes, for the most part those zoning and

the tanic training, sorry, the technical team are funded through fees. Yes, thank you. Uh, continuing on, we have rescue 230. So, in the Newport Rich and Massachusetts Avenue area, there's a large call volume there. So, we want to put an additional uh rescue unit at uh at uh station 30. that I network SCADA is the operating uh network the the operating control system for your utility and so we'd like to put a another technician on that and then facility maintenance technicians as the amount of office space that we have the amount of uh building space we have increases we need more technicians more folks and facilities to maintain those buildings next please outside funding provided by the county we provide over $2 million a year to outside charitable organizations ations including United Way. And you'll see we provide $15,000 to two museums, one on the east side and one on the west side of the county. Next, please. Uh, as you're no doubt aware, the Pasco County is required to contribute to the operation of the sixth judicial circuit. Penelis and Pasco make up the sixth judicial circuit. And you can see for the most part there the requests for funding from those various uh divisions haven't changed all that much with the exception of medical examiner. And so with the increase in population and with the alarming increase in use of opioids, the case load for the medical examiner has been increasing. And so they're requesting additional funding uh this year to pay for those. We were fortunate in 20 and 21 that any of the autopsies that were performed that were found to be of COVID related deaths, the CARES money was able to pay for those autopsies. Pasco County residents didn't need to pay for those. Next, please. So, here we have a summary of the constitutional officer budget requests. As you know, the sheriff, clerk, supervisor of elections, their budgets are due to the uh May 1st. The property appraiser, his budget is due June 1st, and then the tax collector's budget is due August 1. So, here's a summary of each of those four constitutional officers, and I'll go through each one of them uh in turn. Next, please. You can see the sheriff's office requests. Here are some of the things that the sheriff has added in his budget. You'll notice that the sheriff uh built his budget with a $9 million increase and that was at our request. We estimated that the budget would increase the taxable assess values would increase by about 8% and that would have yielded $9 million and so that was the request. So based on our agreement that uh half that $9 million will increase to about $12.4 million. And so staff will continue to work with the sheriff to uh update his budget to make sure that he's got funding that's needed. Yes, ma'am. Well, I have a question on that. So, did he did he request 9 million and he's getting 12? No. What we said was our our agreement is he gets half of new abnorm property

taxes. So, to help him give him a target on what what his budget should look like, we felt that 8% increase in taxable assessed values was about right. And it turned out that it was 10.8. 8 and so it would increase from $9 million to 12.4. But do we see what that delta will buy us? We going to get more. We'll we'll get an updated budget from them with the new number. And again, you know, this is about four years running where we've done this. They've gone down with us when the property appraisers numbers gone down. They've gone up when you know, so it's fluid. So you understand we're going to work with our team to get an updated budget for to to match the updated number. And again, this is a preliminary number, so we we may work with them, but you know, we're going to get a final number in about two and a half weeks. So, we may not get an updated final one until we see what the final number is from the property price on the 1 of July. Okay. So, we are working with their team um to to make sure that we both stay in locked up with kind of that that you know that I mean, I would guess they are probably like us. They have their list of priorities that they want and they had to cut it off at the 9 million. whatever. And so I just wondered what was below the We'll get We'll get back. I think one of the things which is good too, we've had discussions I think maybe some of you had too is beefing up traffic enforcement. Yeah, absolutely. You had some constituents this morning talked about traffic enforcement and one of the things they've talked about is definitely is definitely beefing up traffic enforcement, which I know we've all gotten those emails, which Yeah, that's that was a good I'm just hear Yeah. And I'm just hoping part of that is getting more deputies because I've I've heard them say, you know, we're growing a lot and we certainly want to have the right number of deputies out and about in the county. So, I did see that they're getting uh 30 more, but I I don't know what the the best ratio is. I think there'll be some more, you know, patrol, but also, you know, as we expand the jail, there's going to need to be more personnel cost associated with that as well. So some of that may be, you know, built into that as well. So Okay. Yeah. Mr. Chairman, I think Commission Mar Commission Marian was ahead. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, on the 50/50 split, it's 50% for the county, 50% the sheriff, which on the county's end includes all the constitutionals. I think we just saw the clerk's request is much higher and she can probably she'll she'll go through all that but that's a huge chunk of money about $4 million more money and

that's something that in the agreement should we be looking at that a little closer if we have to have an extraordinary expense increase uh which we've been presented with do we take a look at that agreement maybe tweak it a little bit I think is a percent growth that is still below 10% growth in his budget compared that to the other constitutionals I I think that's reasonable. His his his growth even at $12 million a year is less than a 10% growth year-over-year. And as you look at the other requests are all in excess of 20%. So I I think as a percentage of total that's yeah as a percent growth and remember that he he's still got to deal with increased population. No, I understand. I'm just saying this is like of traffic enforcement. I you know I think his percent growth in his budget and if you actually go back in history he's actually probably got some catching up that he needs to do. So I I think we're in a good place for that. Okay. Okay. Next, please. Mr. Ch. M. Who was that? I would also like that it's Commissioner Patrick. Oh, it didn't sound like you. Doesn't sound like you. All right. Go ahead. My voice is changing right now. Um, I would just like to also intervene and make mention I would like to make sure that we're retaining our officers and we're not losing our officers to surrounding counties and making sure that their salaries um took care are comparable to surrounding care counties as well. Commissioner, we took care of that. Yeah. Um before you got here. Yeah. We had to raise taxes for that. Yes. And consistently increasing. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Next slide, please. The clerk and comprollers request uh came in with a about a $9 million increase. The salary, retirement, health insurance increases of $365. Let's see, $365,000. Those are already included in the base budget for the clerk. Court related technologies of $1.2 million. We took that request and and added it to our business plan initiative uh list. That's currently not funding. It's below the cut line, so it's not funded currently. And then we have the court related uh local requirements of $7 million. We don't feel that's an appropriate expense for the county and so that is also not funded. Mr. Chair, would you like for me to I'd like to to talk on this. You want me to wait till after? No, ask now. All right. Great. Um thank you for um advising me the information. I didn't know but until right now what what the recommendation is. However, um I just want to point out the court related technology. It's not just for court

related technology. It's also for the board services technology. So I just wanted to make sure that that um was just accurately and I um you know I met with each of you back in April and I met with um Mr. Biles and his team. My team met with his team and we've talked through this increase um you know obviously didn't want it to become at the last minute. So, walked through um some of the items um maybe many of the items on the list down to um line item details and I didn't get um the attorney's opinion uh assistant county attorney wrote an opinion in regards to the funding request until last week. And so I sent a letter to um to this board requesting an opportunity for um me to meet with Jeff Stein Snyder, our county attorney um and to me and as well as Dan Biles with a specific purpose to look at the legal requirements um for board funding of my office and um it which includes the court related portion of it and I' I'd like to have that opportunity and for us to focus on the legal requirements um versus you know you know non required funding and if I could have that opportunity to go through that with him um I think that we can probably come back and have better understanding of the numbers um as it relates to the legal legal aspect of them Mr. you know, and I appreciate that. I think, you know, as a board, and I guess I can only speak for myself now, but, you know, our county attorney is where we take our direction from and our county attorney's office is the one that does the research for the board of county commissioners and and our board. So, that's the recommendation as a board that, you know, we're entrusted to follow our county attorney's interpretation of statutes and of laws. Um, and that's typically the council that we are should and are probably required to follow to be honest with you. Um, Mr. Go ahead. And I do want to say I talked with our administrator yesterday about the technology uh funding and I think that's something that we might be able to do at least part of that in the delta that we got between the eight and the 10.8. So, I'm hoping that we'll be able to grow some money there and help you with that part of the budget. Um I guess you know with as far as the courthouse um issue and I don't know if you want to spell that out a little more what's going on but I guess um there's dispute on because we're unusual and we have two cour houses um that um we should be funding it differently and and as the commissioner said our attorney has a different uh interpretation than yours. attorney. So, you know what happens when attorneys disagree? I'm sure we'll I'm sure there will be more discussion on that one. And I think we I think it's good to have a dialogue though that you guys should be talking to our guys so that we can, you know, see if we can come to a resolution without

going down a road that when you have two opposing attorneys views. So, I hope we can come to some kind of agreement on um what's appropriate there. Um but I agree with Commissioner Moore, we got to follow our attorney's advice. Sure. And then see where that that takes us. But I do want to um see if we can't help you get to to where you need with some of this um delta money that we got between the 8% and 10 10%. 10.8 10.8. Mr. Biles, have you set up a meeting to have with the clerk? Yes, sir. I I think specifically she asked also for the county attorney's office to attend. So yeah, we can we can work to set something up and we've looked at all the other numbers and we've kind of broken out some things we are more inclined to support than others and that's part of the BPI list. Again, this is about getting feedback from the board on that list and so that will help us finalize the list between now and the the next meeting in July. Okay, good. Thank you. Okay. It's commissioner. Um I just wanted to mention while looking over the budget and looking at specific costs associated with accounting and other services, if the board's using 91 or 92% or whatever the pets are, whether it's 50 and 50, we should be covering our portion of what the BOCC is utilizing, but making sure it is fair all around. Okay? Because if you take the accounting and then you see how much we use compared to how much her office is using, we should be covering our costs that we incur. And I believe our clerk has the breakdown of that as well. I don't understand the question. Commissioner Fitzpatrick, could you please repeat? I was saying, you know, was explaining if we're utilizing specific services, whether it's through accounting or whatever services that we're the the services that the board is using, then the clerk's office should be compensated for the services that the board specifically is using. Uh yes, ma'am. And I believe you had a breakdown. Uh when I specifically asked, okay, what's the breakdown? How many general ledger transactions were you creating for the board compared to creating for other services? What is the breakdown of how many checks you have to write? And I was getting a breakdown and feedback of everything that you were doing for the VOTC compared to the clerks. Yes, ma'am. And correct. Um I had emailed the information to you. I don't know if you would just confirm that. Yes, that was provided. But it was um we're able with with the newer technology with the newer system when financial system um we're able to pull better reports and we're able to look at the um transactions the types of transactions and whether it is

board related financial transaction or if it's a clerk related financial transaction. So the amount for um covering board services cost, we did it as a a a workload measure, an unweed workload measure. It was just a one for one and um broke that percentage out as you know certain percent for the board work versus the other percent for the clerk's work. Correct. So I just wanted to make sure that all sides were compensated for the work that you were doing. Thank you. It is accounted for the request. Thank you for your question. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. So, as you know, the property appraiser uh budget was due on June 1st. We just got that. We uh going through continuing to evaluate that budget. As you know, we have a new property appraiser included in the increase of about 1.2 million as a salary, retirement, and healthcare increases. But we'll come back to you with the remainder of of the budget drivers for this particular constitutional. Uh, next, please. Supervisor of elections has requested $1.2 million for the things you can see on the screen. In addition to that, we're expecting with the new census that there will be some redistricting costs coming up in the future. There are some redistricting costs built into the supervisor of elections budget, but at this time, we don't know what the redistricting is going to look like. So, we're just estimating what those uh redistricting costs will be. Next, please. Uh if we turn to the fire MSTU fund, you'll notice that the calls for fire rescue have been uh expanding rapidly from just under 55,000 in 2009 to over 80,000 today. 70% of those calls are for our ambulance rescue unit. Uh if you'll go to the next slide, please. Uh you'll notice that general fund taxable assessed values increased by 10.8%. The fire MSTU uh taxable assessed values increased by 11.9%. And so that yields an additional $6.49 million in property tax revenue. The fire department has created this 7-year plan to premium based on the 8% uh increase in taxable assessed values. We felt that it may be necessary to recommend an increase in the fire MSTU millillage. However, we'd like to take some time and look at what is the impact of that increase from 8% to 11.9% and does that still warrant an increase in the firearm MSTU. So, if you'll bear with us, we will take a look at the data, crunch some numbers, and come back to you with a recommendation at a later date. Next, please. Sir, obviously that recommendation will have to happen at the July meeting. It can't be extended past that if we want to make a change. But again, we this this data is less than a week old or it's about a week old. We we still got to crunch some numbers and see what it does to, you know, long-term fund

balance in the fund for the fire fire rescue. So, okay. All right. Moving on to the building department fund. We have uh as you can see, you've seen these figures before, there's really no abatement in the number of new single family homes that are being built. Uh we're still up around record setting uh permit uh receipts at about 8 to 900 uh single family re building permit receipts every month. Next, please. And so the building department would uh these are the new funding initiatives, the new business plan initiatives requested by the building department. uh contractual services for Asella to do some updating, maintenance and that sort of thing on the Asella software and then to add some uh FTEEs, some folks around permitting uh building inspectors and then some flood plane technicians. These of course will all be paid through fees that are generated by the building department. Next, please. So turning to uh public works, you can see over the past three years, Brford and the crews and the public works crews have really been knocking it out of the park. If you look at the number of lane miles that have been paved, has increased from 24 and a half in 2020 to uh projecting 34 and a half next year. PAS was at almost 16 and now in 2022 will be almost 24 lane miles paved. Next, please. Uh stay on the slide, Mr. Chairman. Go ahead. Um, this past week I was over to uh Zephr Hills. They had a uh APS had a really interesting paving project display program on how they took paving itself for repaving a road where they put down the tack simultaneously to putting down the asphalt which gave it a pure bond all the way through. Even the joints they had the spray going in to seal it out. It was a really interesting project. uh the one thing with that uh apparatus which is like 20% more effective as far as bond strength and and effectiveness. I think the t the strength is even like 30%. But the bonding itself was even at 22%. I think it's something we should be taking a look at and I was asking them to come to the no meeting but they're just going to do public comment I think but it's something that I think we shall should all take a look at. I'll meet with these folks and maybe we should even take a look as far as working with these guys for the future. It it I mean just it's a good future contractor they are. Yes. Yeah. So I mean we can work with them now. They can talk to public works about that. Oh yeah. Meth. They actually did a they did a test project on L Road. They did one side with it. Why not did a test on it and the results were the cost is about the same but the the performance is so much better. Yeah. Well we'll see long term. Yeah. I mean I I think again if they're working with public works that's the right place to be working. Yeah. I'm just and again yeah I'm going

to ask them to come before the board on the NPO coming up but it'll be a short presentation and probably won't get back to us but it's something u your staffs are already aware of. They've already looked at seen it. So just want to alert the board. Great. Thank you. We'll make sure that public works is aware of that. Next please. So this is the operating budget for public works. This includes public works road maintenance as well as as the storm water. They're requesting an engineer uh construction specialist and then they plan on doing some additional sidewalk construction, ditch cleaning, that kind of thing in the storm water department. Next, please. If we turn to the capital, these are the projects that are slated for PAS uh in 2022 to the tune of about uh almost $3 million. Next, please. If we look at program maintenance, these are existing roads that are having maintenance uh on them about 10 and a half $10.6 million. And you can see each of the roads there from county line to Little Road and the areas of those each of those roads that will be repaved in in fiscal 22. Next, please. We have some pathways. Uh you see the three pathways there that will be uh starting construction in 22 as well as there have been four traffic signals at these intersections that been have been approved for uh installation in 2022. Next please. Uh storm water capital. You can see there are some very specific projects in here. For example, Colonial Manor Sea Pines and then there are some overarching projects that will occur all over the county. for example, Culvert renewal and placement. New renewal and replacement and that we'll spend about $6 million on those capital projects in the upcoming year. Next, please. So, you can see this chart here shows the uh the gray bars are the number of connections to our utility system. the dark I think that's red at the top that is the American Waterworks Association uh standard for the number of employees for the number of connections. The the yellow line is the actual number that we have uh in our utility for 20 and 21 or 2021 or actual for 22. Those are kind of an estimate. These are the business plan initiatives that we've requested for the utility in 22 will uh allow us to maintain that distance. We won't we won't fall behind. We're not necessarily going to catch up, but we'll be able to maintain that distance with the business plan initiatives that we're adding. All of those business plan initiatives that you'll see on the next slide will be paid for through uh new growth to the system. Next, please. And so you can see here in the utility we're looking to add uh 23 business plan initiatives, 33 FTEES alto together. And those new new FTEEs are employees that will be plant operators, mechanics, maintenance folks, engineers, that kind

of thing. Mr. Chair, Mr. Quick question. Thanks. This might be a question for Mr. Carbala, but are we able to cover our cost? He's saying yes, I want to make sure on every new quote hookup. So if XYZ development comes has 100 homes, the cost of connection connecting is 100% covered. There's nothing that's we're going to um take a loss from in any instance. Trying to unpack that. Forgive me for a second. So if if you're talking about does development pay for itself is that yes it it does not No. What's that? It does not. Okay. Not you have to include the plant expansion required for the growth and that is not covered by the the water or sewer connection use. So, if I go out and de develop a 20 acre parcel with 120 homes, what I'm paying to make that connection today does not cover the county's cost. Correct. It does not cover the treatment cost. We typically we we put the burden of the the pipes, if you will, and the collection on the developer. So they install that infrastructure which then we we take over and maintain and those costs are recovered through our rates. The cost of capacity charges, impact fees that come in uh are are devoted to treatment. However, uh those those fees do not uh amply cover what the cost of a plant expansion would be. Okay. So let me let me expand upon that a little bit. Um, if you didn't have to use additional funds, I should say dollars out of your funds out of your fund, would there be a possibility that you could even possibly lower utility rates because your cost isn't as high or what you're having to take out of your fund? Could that make up a possible delta? If if we were completely whole made whole through through development just for the sake of argument uh I would say that we are we are a cost recovery system that's how our rates are based costs are always increasing so I would say that um uh probably not it would it would depend on on what what costs are doing in the markets we are completing the rates rate study and analysis to include our impact fees and capacity charges we'll be briefing you on those. And and I say that and and I see Commissioner Mariano, I think he's his mind is Mhm. spend a little bit tip. What I don't want to see is obviously a cost of a new development to have a negative impact on your funds. We're going to have to draw out of that fund to cover those extra costs where if we cover we were able to do that or gain a little bit back, we wouldn't have to continue to in the future. I mean, I understand over time you're going to

have to raise utility rates. It is what it is, but maybe not as drastic of increases, you know, cuz I always want and I say this cuz we still we still need to remember we need to think about the people that are here and they've been here. It should never have a negative impact and it should not cost them more money for something new to come. I don't think you disagree, you know, but I I understand. Yes. Yeah. So, I always want to make sure, you know, listen, if if I'm going to go do a new development tomorrow, I decide Mike Moore decides he's going to go build something and need to make a connection. I should not the county should not be underwater because of that. And and I'm done. So, Commissioner, I think that the challenge is a lot of the planned expansion that we need to do and it's on the books today is already baked in based on growth that's already happened to include growth that's coming, right? I'm talking about future now. The past is the past. I'm talking about the future. But the plant expansions also are dealing with current growth and growth that has. And so we already have a negative delta from a funding from a plant capacity standpoint because in general, and I'm going to because they're still doing the rate efficiency analysis. This is an estimate. You probably have to increase your connection charges at least three times to cover that expansion cost, if not more. And so that's baked in. If you don't if you don't do that, so you're today when somebody pays a connection fee, they are not covering their cost or covering maybe a third of their plan expansion cost. So if you said, okay, we don't want to do that anymore, then we are probably somewhere between 12 and 24 months of a building moratorium because we can't expand our plants. And again, that's I could be off a little bit because we're still running some numbers. So if you can't expand your plants, you can't make new connections which mean you will have basin after basin go down to building moratorum except where we're not having growth. Mhm. So it's a yes you know there is significant cost being borne by the rateayer for plant expansions are due mainly to growth but they are also most of them are part of the growth that led up to that too. So, and they didn't pay the the impact fees that they may have necessarily needed to pay to deal with their growth either. So, it's you'd have to go back and say, "Okay, when did this start and how do you recover that cost?" Because it's not just the the next one. There's also growth already baked into the system and there were people that never paid an impact fee. Right. Sure. Of course. So, we're we're still working through the rates efficiency analysis. They

briefed me last night. They're still working on that. um it will be, you know, they'll they'll be ready to start sitting with down with y'all over the next few weeks before they bring the rate resolution to the board. I will say even with all that, we are going to be probably one of the lowest utility rates in the region. Good. Um and so even with what they they think is the right number, which is probably about what you've seen over the last four years anyway. Um to include some changes to how we build reclaim. Yeah. No, I appreciate I get I appreciate it. I know it was I, you know, my I don't want to say this is my mindset, but I think about this sometimes. It's like listen equated to buying a a car for example, you know, um if I'm somebody that wants to buy a Mercedes, I'm going to pay more, right? Then I'm going to pay for a Yuka. It's a big difference between those two, right? Pascal County is on its way to being a Mercedes. You may have to pay a little bit more to get in the game, but the people that were already in the game shouldn't have to pay more cuz they were already in the game. What if you never paid anything? Then you that's something you got to figure out. I'm not I'm not in that game. Get complicated. Yes, what our staff is supposed to be doing for us, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. You know, Commissioner Mo, you bring up a good point because we just were talking the other day about new projects coming in, what the effects would be, etc. And I I think it's a real good point. The reason we pushed the impact fees many years ago was to get new growth to pay for itself. Um, and I'm sure Commissioner is going to Stark, Commissioner Stark's going to talk about this in a minute and a committee reports when it comes because the Lindric system that we just got a great Don't stall. Don't take my but but so all the all the other FGA all the other FGAs we're going to want to take over time, we're looking at the increase how it's going to affect all the other people. Right now those people were here set up through no fault of their own. Yep. They should be included to the regular rates. But everything new coming in, I think we need to go take a look at that because if it's it's going to keep us from taking care of the people that are already here because we can't afford it because the new growth is coming, I'm I'm I I think that people would say let the growth pay for itself at least as it get started. And what could happen is that we have that growth that still comes. And I think part of the reason our rates are so competitive, if you compare everyone else, is because we are so unincorporated that we can put a

better system together over over a longer time and we do get the growth come in, it should get better. But if we don't collect the money we need up front, we're going to keep consistently lag behind instead of getting more efficient down the road. So even these people we charge up front are going to benefit later. And I'll even compare it to a lady who was coming from Hillsboro and we had the school impact thing many years ago. She says, "Look, I liked coming to Pasco County because you guys were planning for the future. I didn't mind paying those extra fees cuz I knew you'd have the capacity to go service my children when they're going to go to school." And I think utility is about the same type of thing. Let's let's take a close look at that. Thank you. I want to reiterate something. I think Comm or Mr. Biles a little while ago, you made reference to something that it's it's there was a hypothetical thing that can happen. So, I don't want Yeah. Don't get the right wrong idea from what the county administrator said a second ago about some type of moratorum or something. That's not the case. But you given a you were giving a hypothetical of what something possibly could happen whether it be in any county or somewhere in the nation. So make sure Southern Hillsboro if you don't have the funds to expand your plan. And so we have funding we're looking at that you know that's part of the rates sufficiency analysis. I I will say I think what you'll see is probably something very similar to what you saw over the last four years. Yeah. Yeah. So I would say I just want to it's hypothetical what you said. We have we have there's no shortage. The recommended plan is going to take care of that where that is not an issue. Right. you know, we are finalizing that. You will get that soon, but it will look a lot like what you've seen over the last four years. Okay, Mr. Chairman. Mr. I just want to say though, too, if you look at Pasco County historically, we weren't charging fees. Um, it took a long time before we had that storm water utility fee and others. And that, you know, that's shame on us really that we weren't collecting that a long time ago. I know when I sat on the swift mud board for six years and um I would drive down to my budget meetings for my PA basin board with a 25 and then $50 million budget that we could spend on storm water and utility projects. I Pasco County couldn't participate because we didn't have the matching funds. So we, you know, we we kind of did that to ourselves also that we weren't collecting that money way back. No, we they long before I was sitting on here. Um but and maybe Jack was here, but he was only one of five. Um but you know, we we didn't have that mindset to

um we never went after grants. We didn't charge a lot of fees, right? It was very cheap to live here. We did you didn't get a whole lot for it, but you could live here cheap. So, um good discussion. You know, just commissioner, one final thing is keep in mind most of the new growth is connecting to our reclaim system. Right now, we're delivering about 23 million gallons a day reclaim, which is 23 million gallons a day. We're not buying from Tampa Bay water, which means the rateayers are saving money because of the reclaim system, which is mostly going into new, you know, bas basically all new growth is connected. Yeah, it's great. It's where most of that is and so there is a balance there and so there is some savings there. You know, that's a tremendous amount of water we are not pulling out of the aquifer. You're right. The states with that and we could have had 25 million more dollars um that we didn't have to pay if things had worked out the way we had hoped or was it would have been half at 25 million 12 a.5 million 12 that was an unfortunate event for Pasco County. Mr. Mariana, Mr. Chairman, thank you. um you know in two I want to make two two points coming up and I'll talk reclaim water in a second but on redevelopment issues um I'll give you an example on Little Road we had a insurance my insurance company not my insurance company the company I'm agent for didn't did a bought a home and then brought a commercial facility in the use of the commercial facility should be a lot less the res residential use the impact of that because of using a larger pipe to a smaller pipe was substantial in the effect which also affects our total calculation. So the data they were using I think was back from 1950s data that finally with the engineer they finally got it to a better size than what was first proposed but I think we need to go dig into that and go take a look at that because if we're going to redevelop along 19 I want the growth to pay for itself at the same time I don't want to be overcharged or even overuse our capacity that we don't need to have. Um, and one thing with reclaimed water, um, I've talked to several different golf courses all around, I've brought this up before, but I'm going to tell you, when you have a community that's got a golf course in place that's functional, that's viable, etc., it helps those property values, which helps the tax base, sure. When you all of a sudden take the cost and quadruple them, it affects their budget tremendously. And we got nice communities like Heritage Pines, Seven Springs, etc., um that used to get it real cheap. Now they don't. And if we're not going to let them use the reclaimed water, maybe we need to work with Swift to get them a

the pumping permits established where they can just go pump more water. I think we're better off if they use the regular water reclaim. But I think we need to go look at what these golf course communities because we it's it's a good part of our economic base when people can play golf. I mean, you got I think it's I think it goes kind of like beaches, fishing, then golf courses. And we got some great golf courses, Plantation Palms, and Commissioner Mo, I'll just give you accolades as far as how you worked with the new owner that came in and work with the residents to make sure how important that golf course was to them. So, I think we need to go take a look at those reclaim water rates as well. Let's go look to what we promised those people when they first signed up for the reclaim water and then should we go onto those contracts were back then with moderate price increases instead of the dramatic ones they face. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, let's go back. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Thanks, Mike. Mike, there's two more slides. Next, please. And so, as we've just been talking, the water wastewater utility is a capital intensive uh program and these are the kind of the capital projects that we're looking forward to uh in the upcoming years. Next, please. And then the final fund we want to talk about is a solid waste uh fund. Solid waste, the amount of trash we generated actually increased during the pandemic with everyone getting box after box of stuff from Amazon. And so their uh initiatives they'd like to add three new employees, a plant mechanic, solid waste attendant, and an equipment operator. Next, please. And then next steps, we're expecting the final taxable assessed values on July 1st and we'll adjust the budget according to what happens to the taxable assessed values. They could go up, they could go down. We don't know at this point. And then at July 6th, we'll meet again to set the trim, which is the truth and millage. And at that point we will set millage rate for the uh general operating millillage as well as the uh fire MSTU that we can then advertise that millage rate to the residents. They will receive that advertisement in August and September telling them what the millage rate the maximum the millage rate will be. So when we set the millage rate in July that millage rate can go down but it can't go up during the final hearings. And I will also communicate to the residents when the final hearings are so that they can come in and give us their feedback on the budget. And with that, that's all I have. Happy to answer any further questions you might have. Um, so is the land which one of these is a waste to energy solid waste fund. Where is it? Is that the It's the next to the last. I'm sorry. I'm trying to I'm following you.

the first game at Wiregrass Ranch Sports Camp of Pasco County. hundreds, you know, if of room nights here in Pasco County. That's what tourism is all about. That's what our DMOS, why they're doing such great things is bring people to Pasco County to eat in our restaurants, you know, shop at our local mom and pops and uh buy their gas here in Pasco County. And we really appreciate all the exposure. And it wasn't just um from people from Florida. These are future NBA stars that came from all over the country and actually all over the world. There were international players that came as well. I look forward to that um tournament or I shouldn't say to that event being built upon. I think we're going to meet with them in the next couple weeks to help make it even bigger and better. But scouts, coaches from all over the place. Um it was great. Um real quick, uh Port Mitch's CR up CRA update. I know we everybody's probably paying very close attention to this. They have a update tonight at their meeting on their CRA boundaries and we had talked about this last in February, I think in March as well. Um, we talked about it February, they discussed it in March. I'm not going to go over too much detail, but I'll just give you an example of why it's so important to carve out some of those areas. Um, recently I was doing some due diligence and saw that a one of those homes in one of the neighborhoods we talked about that should be pulled out is actually listed on the market for 1.3 million and sale pending. Now, I can't obviously we don't know what that price was. could have been above or below, but uh that's definitely not a blighted neighborhood by any means. So, that's just a perfect example. So, I'm I'm confident that Port Richie is going to move forward with that. I have all the confidence in the world that they'll uh be doing the right thing and pull that area and hopefully some more areas out of that CRA. Um moving forward, I think they can actually pull that off maybe tonight. Um, the last thing, and this is very important, and some of you may have received the same email, but I did want to take a moment and read it because I know we have some people from fire rescue here, and I think the chief's back there himself today, but I received a very, very nice email from a constituent um, complimenting Pasco County Fire Rescue. So, I did want to read that to everybody. It says, "Dear Commissioner Moore, my name is Timothy Reid. I am a two-time Purple Hearts recipient in the United States and a United States Marine veteran. My wife, my service dog, Shadow and I just moved into the Quail Hollow Pines neighborhood back in September of 2020. We have our very first home in this beautiful neighborhood surrounded by lovely neighbors in nature. On Monday, May 10th, 2021, an unfortunate event occurred where a brush fire blazed up behind our backyard coming from the neighbor. The fire quickly engulfed the pine tree spreading so fast toward our home and the surrounding homes. We were

in a panic. My wife was so frantic seeing our whole yard caught on fire in an instant. So we quickly and so fast we it well it started fanning up because of the heavy winds and they felt helpless. Paso County Fire Rescue 13 showed up within minutes. We heard the fire siren. We knew we were safe. Captain David Agraph calmly walked up in full gear and hoses reassuring us we got this. At that moment we knew we were in good hands. It said more PCFR13 um firefighters calmly charged in setting the water hoses up and running towards the fire. Tammy the angry inferno down. Pasco County fire rescue departments. He he said departments but I didn't think he meant stations. That's okay. 26, 38, 27, 13, 3, 6, and 4 were all present in the Florida sweltering heat, working diligently, common collected, and even went as far as making sure our fruit trees didn't become a casualty of the fire. These brave men and women did not hesitate one second to get the job done. Their heroism and professionalism saved our home and our neighbors homes without anyone injured. We want you to know that we owe you and your brave firemen, women, an outstanding debt of gratitude. These men and women are the heart and soul of this community. We want to express our thanks and respect to you and your firemen and fire women. Keep up the incredible work. We are also here to support you. We're one fantastic community. Please let our firemen and fire women know how much we appreciate all of you. Sincerely, Tim and and Shadow. So, congratulations. And I think it's very I love when we get those letters and kudos. Yeah. Give a round of applause. I I shared that with Chief Cass and I think he already um got the word out and shared it amongst uh some of his captains and and team members. But uh again, thank you all for everything and um I'm glad those residents and citizens are safe. So, thank you. That's it for me. Thank you. More minutes. Um, first, um, driving here and driving around the county, I'm reminded about the Kogan grass that's continuing to spread. And, um, as I passed CPV, the land some of the land that I think we're going to be voting on. And notice some of the some of the land is just covered in Kogan grass. And I wondered if we have restrictions so that when a land is cleared that has an invasive plant on it, they don't take it and um fill use it as fill somewhere else. That's actually how it got into my neighborhood in Arista. The development partner um brought it in and built the swailes that were required in the back. And so now we have uh a number of homes that have coen grass in it and it's really difficult to get rid of. So, I I do think we need some kind of regulations so that you don't make the problem worse by bringing uh bringing that into your neighborhood. And I I think what they do is they pile it up and then they burn it. Um but I'm not sure, but we we need to have regulation

that you can't take the um that that and put it on someone else's property. Um I have some photos I wanted them to load up. Uh I was recently in Mississippi. Okay, this one I was in Spokane last this last week. Um my son-in-law took command of uh refueling squadrons, which is very cool. Um but and then the other photos are from a real estate project I went to see two weeks ago in Mississippi. Um well, I didn't mean to show that house. That's a nice tree. um that if you go back to the sidewalk um you'll see what and there should be like eight pictures um you should see what this is Mississippi Ocean Springs what communities are doing so they don't tear out their trees um but they still have functioning sidewalks is they do the sidewalks in these squares where they have these trees with tree roots so so rather than tear out the tree which I think this, you know, I I hate seeing they they do the sidewalks uh like this. And it's interesting that in two places I I I've seen where they're they're doing this and I think we should look at repairing sidewalks differently than ripping out the trees. Um uh I had a question on the landscaping on Ridge Road. I know that when we um widened Ridge Road, we put aside $75,000 for a landscaping plan and funds. and I was told that it was sitting somewhere waiting for the the litigation to finish. And so I just want to know when we'll see that really nice landscaping along Ridge Road. Um also 52 in the Sun Coast still wait I guess that maybe that'll be an NO question but there's no landscaping the Sun Coast yet. Um and uh we talked to to the Turnpike people a long time ago. We really want to see that landscaping come. Um, yeah, I want to thank our legislators. I very happy that Mskills received 450,000 and I'd gone up and talked to DEEO and Enterprise Florida and everybody about what we're doing and they're all very excited about it. So, it might have been a little misleading because the way we were funded was in two different pots. So um we we had we had a request in for 550 and it was divided 100 and 450 and um we did get the 450 and that's going towards renovations um of the building. I right now the Tampa Bay built um TBBJ Tampa Bay Business Journal is doing um a uh meeting or I don't know what it's called. They're having a panel right now on the state of manufacturing. And I I just heard that AMS Skills was uh our plan to taking training to the community is a brilliant strategy. So we're getting a shout out right now online with the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Um and Lindrich 3.8 million uh very exciting to help improve the uh water quality and the the um water delivery and the whole aging sewer system over there. that um this is going to go a long way to helping uh the county deal with the problems as they acquire Lindrek. So um we're very grateful to to the legislature and especially a shout out to my friend who is the incoming state

senate president because he put the placeholder in that allowed us to stay alive. So um I'm very thankful to him. um on short-term rentals. I think that's a workshop that we need, you know, we need to discuss with our citizens and with our attorneys and with everybody what it means if we stay or if we get rid of our ordinance and um uh because I know the community is divided. My G Harbors neighborhood is is divided. um we'll never get consensus I think but I think we have a we have to have a good talk about what it means if we get rid of our ordinance and which in my opinion isn't working. Um, and lastly on on the planning side, when I was in Spokane, um, visiting again the the uh my son-in-law's command ceremony. It's my second it's their second time being stationed there at Fairchild, but they live they live in Spokane. It's a really interesting planning exercise to drive around this beautiful community um called well I'm not sure what the whole name of it is but where my daughter lives. And were you stationed at Fairchild? No. No ma'am. Okay. I have one fair child. All right. Um you you can be driving along and it's beautiful homes and you saw one with the the tree and that's one of the little homes. Um, and then boom, it's a bakery or an ice cream shop. And then two houses down on the same street, it's a quadruplex. And then there's 10 million dollar homes. And then there's a duplex. And it's it's just beautiful. It's just all mixed in and woven. And the schools are all in in, you know, it's just really woven with a lot of uses within a community. And you know we here with our new stuff we to me we seem to comp compartmentmentalize everything and I just really found that to be just a you know if I lived in spoky and have your morning coffee and I just I just wanted to say it is possible to to live in a wonderful place that has a bunch of different types of people living in there and workforce housing and affordable housing. woven in to a community in a really smart way. And yes, there all the roads are on a grid even though it's going up a mountain side. So, pretty cool. That's it for me. Okay, with that, uh it's a little bit after 12. We're going to break for lunch and then we'll come back at 1:30 to continue our meeting. [Music] Pasco County waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains. Storm water carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an unhealthy environment for fish, water foul, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an elicit discharge, please contact